This view is across the large green off the Northcourt Road …
Merry Christmas from Northcourt.
Ho Ho Ho’ and ‘Merry Christmas’ from Peachcroft.
Santa Claus climbs up the chimney near the Radley Road.
Some of the more notable displays from previous years were not to be seen this year but there were still plenty of people willing to brighten up the dark nights with a display of Christmas Lights.
Back in Abingdon and I took a tour of South Abingdon to look at some of the Christmas Lights. I did not get round to everywhere by a long way and will also look round North Abingdon for the blog fairly soon.
To my mind this was the best neighbourhood display – four houses that coordinated well. The rest of the road was also well lit up in parts.
Possibly the most flamboyant lights so far.
I took about twenty pictures on the tour, put the results on the computer, and this looked the best picture to me.
When I searched Ebay for Abingdon I found mostly postcards for sale – including three featuring the war memorial in days gone by.
At 11 O’clock this morning about 40 people stood in silence round the war memorial to mark Armistice Day. The town crier rang his bell to announce the two minute silence.
The town clerk, Mayor and Chair of the Vale were there, behind them were town councillors.
There were also two young ladies selling poppies, where the green shop front once was. Near them were some veterans with medals. And round about were people – some who had deliberately come and others who had paused in passing as a mark of respect.
Sporadic traffic continued to flow as the people stood in silence until the town crier rang his bell again. Somebody then broke the silence to complain that it was a total disgrace that the traffic had shown no respect.
Go to Fixmystreet.com and each red flag represents a problem reported by somebody via fixmystreet.com to the council’s road maintenance department.
West Saint Helen Street could be the road with the most red flags in Abingdon unless you know better.